Marine Bar, Santa Catalina, California, 1930s Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) These were not luxury hotels

These were not luxury hotels – the room rate was a dollar and a half – but they were clean and comfortable and patronized by a population that was newly mobile thanks to the automobile

Her hair looks like the tentacles of an octopus

dining establishments

try to spot sea lions on the rocks below

founding the Trocadero in 1895

Marine Bar, Santa Catalina, California, 1930s Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) These were not luxury hotelsGreat design is timeless. This simple but strikingly effective menu cover is 80 years old. It comes from the beautiful Catalina Casino, still a focal point of Catalina Island's entertainment scene. The unique Moorish and Deco structure was completed in 1929 under the direction of magnates William Wrigley Jr. and David M. Renton. It was the first completely circular building built in the modern era and cost two million dollars. It contained a movie